6-year-old boy wounded in North Philly by a stray bullet

Shortly before 7:50 p.m., the boy was standing with his father and 15-year-old brother outside the family home on Norris Street near 24th Street when he was wounded in the left shoulder, said Chief Inspector Scott Small.

Small said the gunfire came from the 2000 block of 24th Street, where police were investigating an unattended parked vehicle.

Police were investigating a street shooting Friday night in North Philadelphia that resulted in a 6-year-old boy being wounded. Police said the shooting happened on the 2300 block of West Norris Street about 7:45 p.m. Medics took the boy, who was struck in his left shoulder, to Temple University Hospital where he was listed in stable condition.